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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) on his home planet of Gallifrey in the 2015 season finale Hell Bent

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #840

Name: Trevor Laird [1957 - ]
Year(s): 1986 / 2007 / 2007 / 2007
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4 / Smith And Jones / The Sound Of Drums / The Last Of The Time Lords
Character(s): Frax / Clive Jones

Before Who:
Films: Quadrophenia* (1979), Babylon (1980), The Long Good Friday* (1980), Burning an Illusion (1981), Walter (1982), The Bride (1983), Water (1985), The Flying Devils (1985), Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1985)

Television: BBC2 Play of the Week: The Vanishing Army (1978) / Play for Today: The Vanishing Army (1980) / Maybury [2 episodes as Winston (1981)] / Dear Heart (1982) / BBC2 Playhouse: Easy Money (1982) / Crown Court: A Black and White Case (1983) / Give us a Break: Streetwise and Nancy Free (1983) / Struggle [4 episodes as Charlie (1983-1984)] / Big Deal: Getting Knotted (1985) Call Me Mister: Frozen Assets (1986)

After Who:
Films: Slipstream (1989), Smack and Thistle (1991), Bernard and the Genie ( (1991), Secrets & Lies (1996), Love, Honor and Obey (2000), National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors (2011), National Theatre Live: Small Island (2019), To Be Someone (2020), Cruella (2021)
Television: The New Statesman: Friends of St. James (1987) / Tickets for the Titanic: Incident on the Line (1988) / The Lenny Henry Show [4 episodes as Trevor (1988)] / Birds of a Feather: Shift (1989) / Love Hurts: Walk Right Back (1992) / Us Girls (1993) / Jack and Jeremy's Real Lives: Restauranteurs (1996) / Grange Hill (1997) / Undercover Heart [6 episodes as Wesley Carter (1998)] / Casualty: Love Over Gold (1999) / The Bill; Hot Money (1999) / NCS Manhunt: Out of Time (2002) / Holby City [2 episodes, different characters (2002-2014)] / William and Mary (2003) / Doctors [2 episodes, different characters (2003-2021)] / The Last Detective: Dangerous and the Lonely Hearts (2004) / Peep Show: Local Zero (2004) / The Murder Room (2005) / The Eagle [3 episodes as Le Mabé (2005)] / Waking the Dead: End of the Night (2009) / Trinity [2 episodes as Barrington MacKenzie (2009)] / Toast of London [2 episodes as Nick Swivney (2014)] / Death in Paradise: Swimming in Murder (2015) / The Job Lot (2015) / No Offence (2017) / Hailmakers (2017) / Small Axe: Education (2020) / Ted Lasso [2 episodes as Denbo (2021)]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley) inspects the Krynoid seed pod in The Seeds of Doom (1976)

[iank]

Amy's Choice. A hoot and a half. The regulars are all on top form, the wit and the comedy ("Attack of the Old People!") is spot on and Toby Jones is a class villain.

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #841a

Name: Thomas Branch [? - ]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4
Character(s): Dorf The Lukoser

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: None

After Who:
Films: None
Television: Screenplay: Needle (1990) / Birds of a Feather: Baby Come Back (1991) / True Crimes: Knightsbridge Safe Deposit (1992)

Who: Before And After #841b

Name: Gordon Warnecke [1962 - ]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 7: Mindwarp part 3 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4
Character(s): Tuza

Before Who:
Films: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Television: Boon [10 episodes as Hanif Kurtha (1986)]

After Who:
Films: Bureaucracy of Love (1987), Young Toscanini (1988), The Hospice (1991), London Kills Me (1991), The Pleasure Principle (1991), Exitz (2007), The Telemachy (2012), Venus (2017), London Unplugged (2018)
Television: Birds of a Feather [2 episodes as Ranjith (1989)] / EastEnders [6 episodes as Jabbar (1990)] / Only Fools and Horses: The Sky's the Limit (1990) / A Fatal Inversion [3 episodes as Shiva (1992)] / The Bill [5 episodes, different characters (1992-2001)] / Virtual Murder: A Torch for Silverado (1992) / Love Hurts: Cold Comfort (1993) / Seekers (1993) / Funky Black Shorts: Dreamchild (1994) / Brookside [7 episodes as Dil Palmar (1995)] / NCS Manhunt: Tinderbox (2002) / Y Pris (2007) / Puppy Love [3 episodes as Ravi Singh (2014)] / Holby City: Unbreakable (2017)

Who: Before And After #841c

Name: Richard Henry [? - 2012]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 5: Mindwarp part 1, The Trial Of A Time Lord part 8: Mindwarp Part 4
Character(s): Marne

Before Who:
Films: None
Television: Coronation Street (1971) / Armchair Theatre; The Breaking of Colonel Keyser (1972) / Full House (1972) / Oil Strike North: First Lion (1975) / Second Verdict; Murder on the 10.27 (1976) / When the Boat Comes In [3 episodes, different characters (1976-1981)] / The Paper Lads; Eyewitness (1977) / Out of the Past: The Fiery Pits (1978) / Danger UXB; The Quiet Weekend (1979) / Angels (1980) / Juliet Bravo: Who's Your Friend? (1983) / The Pickwick Papers [2 episodes as Lowten (1985)]

After Who:
Films: Little Dorrit (1987), Without a Clue* (1988), The Fool (1990)

Television: In Sickness and in Health: Christmas Special (1986) / Rockliffe's Babies; Sirens (1987) / The Bill: Country Cousin (1988) / Love Street (1994) / London's Burning (2000)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) in The Krotons (1969)

[Susan Foreman]

Guest actors appearing in THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: TERROR OF THE VERVOIDS who have previously appeared in the show:

• Michael Jayston (The Valeyard)
• Lynda Bellingham (The Inquisitor)
• David Allister (Bruchner)
• Arthur Hewlett (Kimber)
• Bob Appleby (Vervoid)

Who: Before And After #842

Name: Bonnie Langford [1964 - ] [Birth name Bonita Melody Lysette Langford ]
Year(s): 1986 - 1987
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 9: Terror Of The Vervoids part 1 – Dragonfire part 3
Character(s): Melanie Bush [20 episodes]

Note(s):

• Is the first companion actor to have been born after the show started in 1963

Reprised the role of Mel in:

• The 1993 Children In Need charity special 'Dimensions In Time'
• The Series 24 Blu-Ray Box Set advert 24 Carat

Appeared in numerous Big Finish audio stories:

• In the 'Doctor Who Main Range' adventures 'The Fires of Vulcan' / 'The One Doctor' / 'Bang-Bang-a-Boom!' / 'Flip-Flop' / 'Zagreus' / 'The Juggernauts' / 'Catch 1782' / 'Unregenerate!' / 'Thicker Than Water' / 'Red' / 'The Wishing Beast' / 'The Vanity Box' / 'The Wrong Doctors' / 'Spaceport Fear' / 'The Seeds of War' / 'We Are The Daleks' / 'The Warehouse' / 'Terror of the Sontarans' / 'A Life of Crime' / 'Fiesta of the Damned' / 'Maker of Demons' / 'The High Price of Parking' / 'The Blood Furnace' / 'The Silurian Candidate' / 'Red Planets' / 'The Dispossessed' / 'The Quantum Possibility Engine'
• The 'Lost Stories' adventure 'Mind of the Hodiac'
• The 'Sixth Doctor Adventures' stories 'The Brink of Death' / 'Water Worlds' ('The Rotting Deep' / 'The Tides of the Moon' / 'Maelstrom')
• The 'Seventh Doctor Adventures' stories 'Silver and Ice' ('Bad Day in Tinseltown' / 'The Ribos Operation')
• The 'Short Trips' stories 'Mel-evolent' / 'The Devil's Footprints'
• The 'Doctor Who Unbound' story 'He Jests at Scars...'
• The 'Peladon' story 'The Death of Peladon'

Provided the Audiobook Readings for:

• The Target Novelisations of 'Paradise Towers' / 'Terror of the Vervoids' / 'Delta and the Bannermen' / 'Dragonfire' / 'Time and the Rani'
• The 'K9 Audio Annual' stories 'Powerstone' / 'Hound of Hell'

Before Who:
Films: Bugsy Malone* (1976), Wombling Free (1978)

Television: Junior Showtime: Christmas Pantomime - Babes in the Wood (1973) / Just William [17 episodes as Violet Elizabeth Bott (1977-1978)] / The Morecambe & Wise Show (1982) / The Sooty Show; The Dancer (1983)

After Who:
Films: 42nd Street: The Musical (2019)
Television: Saturday Night Out (1988) / The Little and Large Show (1990) / Tonight at 8.30; Family Album (1991) / Goodnight Sweetheart: How I Won the War (1999) / Miss Marple; By the Pricking of My Thumbs* (2006) / The Catherine Tate Show: Comic Relief Special (2007) / Hotel Babylon (2008) / The Spa: Love Is a Losing Game (2013) / EastEnders* [351 episodes as Carmel Kazemi (2015-2018)]

Music Video: G-O-S-H (1987): Wishing Well [as herself]

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A promotional image of Kate Stewart (Gemma Redgrave) for The Day of the Doctor (2013)

[Susan Foreman]

Who: Before And After #843

Name: Honor Blackman [1925 - 2020]
Year(s): 1986
Stories: The Trial Of A Time Lord part 9: Terror Of The Vervoids part 1 – The Trial Of A Time Lord part 12: Terror Of The Vervoids Part 4
Character(s): Professor Sarah Lasky

Note(s):

• Had previously been offered the role of Vivien Fay in the 1978 story 'The Stones of Blood', but allegedly turned it down because she didn't want to be upstaged by Beatrix Lehmann. Was also considered for the roles of Doctor Solow in the 1984 story 'Warriors of the Deep' and Queen Katryca in the 1986 story 'The Trial Of A Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet'
• Would later provide the voice of Queen Anahita in the Big Finish 'Doctor Who Lost Stories' adventure 'The Children of Seth'

Before Who:
Films: Fame Is the Spur (1947), Daughter of Darkness (1948), Quartet (1948), A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949), Conspirator (1949), Diamond City (1949), So Long at the Fair (1950), Joseph Proctor's Money (1951), Green Grow the Rushes (1951), Come Die My Love (1952), Little Red Monkey (1953), The Fifth Season (1954), The Rainbow Jacket (1954), Diplomatic Passport (1954), The Delavine Affair (1955), The Glass Tomb (1955), The Infinite Shoeblack (1956), Flame in the Forest (1956), Breakaway (1956), You Pay Your Money (1957), Suspended Alibi (1957), Account Rendered (1957), A Night to Remember* (1958), The Square Peg (1958), A Matter of WHO (1961), Serena (1962), Jason and the Argonauts* [as Hera] (1963), Goldfinger* [as Pussy Galore] (1964), The Secret of My Success (1965), Life at the Top (1965), Moment to Moment (1966), Shalako (1968), A Twist of Sand (1968), The Last Roman (1968), London Affair (1970), The Last Grenade (1970), The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), Fright (1971), Something Big (1971), To the Devil a Daughter [as Anna Fountain] (1976), Age of Innocence (1977), The Cat and the Canary (1978)

Television: The Vise [4 episodes, different characters (1954-1958)] / Rheingold Theatre; The Way Home (1956) / The Three Musketeers [2 episodes, different characters (1956)] / Boyd Q.C.: The Open and Shut Case (1957) / The New Adventures of Charlie Chan: The Patient in Room 21 (1957) / Hour of Mystery; One Must Die (1957) / The Invisible Man: Blind Justice* (1958) / African Patrol [3 episodes, different characters (1958)] / Probation Officer [9 episodes as Iris Cope (1959)] / Suspense: Point of Honour (1960) / The Four Just Men [10 episodes as Nicole (1959-1960)] / The Third Man: The Widow Who Wasn't (1960) / Danger Man: Colonel Rodriguez (1960) / Knight Errant Limited: King Charles' Head (1961) / Bootsie and Snudge: Rally Round the Flag (1961) / The Pursuers: The Frame (1961) / Top Secret; The Men from Yesterday (1961) / Ghost Squad: The Princess (1962) / The Saint: The Arrow of God (1962) / The Avengers*[43 episodes as Cathy Gale (1962-1964)] / ITV Play of the Week: Present Laughter (1967) / ABC Stage 67: The Wide Open Door (1967) / Armchair Theatre: Recount (1968) / ITV Playhouse; The Explorer (1968) / The Name of the Game: An Agent of the Plaintiff (1969) / ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Visit from a Stranger (1970) / Boney: Boney in Venom House (1972) / Columbo; Dagger of the Mind (1972) / The Lives of Benjamin Franklin [2 episodes as Margaret Stevenson (1974-1975)] / Jubilee: Wind of Change (1977) / Robin's Nest [2 episodes as Marion Nicholls (1978) / Crown Court: Heart to Heart (1979) / Holding the Fort: Otherwise Engaged (1982) / Never the Twain [5 episodes as Veronica Barton (1981-1982)] / In Performance; Orpheus in the Underworld (1983) / Partners in Crime: The Secret Adversary (1983) / Lace [2 episodes as Selma (1984)] / The First Olympics - Athens 1896 [2 episodes as Madam Ursula Schumann (1984)] / Minder: Minder on the Orient Express (1985)

After Who:
Films: Voice of the Heart (1989), Tale of the Mummy (1998), To Walk with Lions [as Joy Adamson] (1999), The Sight (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary* (2001), Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown (2004), Color Me Kubrick (2005), Sound (2007), Reuniting the Rubins (2010), I, Anna (2012), Cockneys vs Zombies* (2012)

Television: Crossbow; The Bet (1987) / The Upper Hand [95 episodes as Laura (1990-1996)] / ABC Weekend Specials: The Secret Garden (1994) / Doctors: A Helping Hand (2000) / The Armando Iannucci Shows; Mortality (2001) / Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible: Lesbian Vampire Lovers of Lust* (2001) / Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story [2 episodes as Jules (2001)] / The American Embassy: Agent Provocateur (2002) / Midsomer Murders; A Talent for Life* (2003) / The Royal [3 episodes as Mrs. Lyons (2003)] / Revolver [2 episodes as Mother (2004)] / Coronation Street [5 episodes as Rula Romanoff (2004)] / New Tricks: Old and Cold (2005) / Rosamunde Pilcher [2 episodes as Countess Lucinda Reeves (2005)] / Hotel Babylon (2009) / Casualty: Bedside Manners (2013) / By Any Means (2013) / You, Me & Them; The Other Mother (2015)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) in a classic publicity shot for 1972's The Three Doctors.